Overwatch 2 Locks Over Half The Roster For Some Players

The troubled launch of Overwatch 2 is a full-blown saga now. In the present day, in an try to handle points pertaining to Torbjörn and Bastion, Blizzard introduced that it will be pulling the characters solely from some recreation modes. Don’t fret when you don’t see them, that half is intentional. Whereas there’s no phrase on how lengthy the characters will likely be inaccessible, the transfer is presumably to repair Bastion’s infinite final, together with a Torbjörn means that lacked its cooldown. Someway, in doing so, Blizzard has created a wholly new downside: A complete swath of characters are not accessible for some gamers.

Logging in myself, as somebody who beforehand had your entire roster unlocked, I now have 12 characters whom I can not entry. They’re Doomfist, Sigma, Wrecking Ball, Ashe, Echo, Mei, Sombra, Symmetra, Torbjörn, Zenyatta, Kiriko, Baptiste, and Brigitte. Restarting the sport didn’t assist with unlocking the characters, nor did restarting my PS5. The characters merely retained the little lock icon, despite the fact that I used to be enjoying with a few of these inaccessible characters simply earlier as we speak. And taking a look at social media, I’m not alone on this difficulty: There are a ton of confused people who don’t know what’s occurring proper now, yelling at Blizzard to undo it.

“What’s going on at Blizzard now???” one participant tweeted, whereas commenting on their incapability to entry their full roster. “Can’t play nearly any of my mains,” one other who’s experiencing the roster difficulty stated.

This follows after every week of different enormous points, during which gamers couldn’t log into the sport in any respect, had hassle migrating their accounts from the primary Overwatch, couldn’t use pay as you go telephones, and bizarrely, suffered a technical difficulty whereby the chat may in some way purchase issues from the shop. Whereas all of those points have been mounted or improved, gamers preserve discovering different bugs or unfinished belongings. It’s all left the impression that Overwatch 2 feels extra like an early-access recreation than a fully-fledged, polished, completed product. And with the developer having to drag whole characters and ending up breaking your entire recreation within the course of, it’s getting tougher to argue in protection of Overwatch 2 even whether it is enjoyable to play.

Kotaku’s reached out to Blizzard to inquire about this monumental bug. From the sounds of it, this isn’t the primary time that some gamers have been locked out of accessing characters since launch, however the difficulty seems to be considerably extra widespread than earlier than. In accordance with gamers who skilled the bug previous to as we speak, it took a couple of day for it to resolve.

Replace 11:41 p.m. ET: Overwatch went down for upkeep for an estimated hour, and is now again up when you’re presently studying this. In a discussion board put up that compiles recognized points, Blizzard acknowledged the locked characters bug, noting that “That is attributable to a problem with our servers that tracks participant development. We’re working to get this difficulty resolved as shortly as attainable.” After I initially loaded the sport on PS5, I may entry all my beforehand unlocked roster. Chatting with different gamers, it looks like a blended bag. Some are discovering the problem is now gone, others nonetheless have their characters gone. This tracks, as a result of the locked roster was a factor that some have been experiencing previous to tonight, it simply occurred to massively unfold after the preliminary Torb + Bastion repair. Your mileage might fluctuate. Whereas my roster is again, I now have a very new difficulty: I preserve getting kicked out of video games. 

Correction 10/10/2022 8:38 p.m. ET: This put up beforehand acknowledged it was over half the roster, when it’s 12 out of 34. Nevertheless, gamers are reporting completely different numbers of inaccessible characters than I personally am experiencing.